NIDA Avenir Award Program for Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Use Disorders (DP1) Selected for Phase II review (2019)

Elected Associate Member, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2019)

Selected for participation in the Center for Underrepresented Research in Addiction (CURA) 2020 class. CURA is a NIDA supported program that promotes the advancement of underrepresented independent researchers in drug addiction research.

Funding

2014 Andrews Genomics Scholar Ozburn June 15, 2014

OHSU Foundation, Andrews Fund

The goal of this award is to provide financial support via the Andrews Fund at OHSU. These funds enable the development of my independent research program as a faculty member of the Department of Neuroscience at the Oregon Health & Science University and Research Biologist at the Portland VA Medical Center.

IK2 BX002488 Ozburn (PI) October 1, 2014 – March 31, 2020

Department of Veterans Affairs - Career Development Award 2

Altering Nucleus Accumbens Activity: Effect on Alcohol Behaviors and Transcriptome. The goal of this project is to identify how altering specific brain activity can alter alcohol-related behaviors and identify transcriptional mechanisms that underlie lasting reductions in binge- and relapse-like alcohol drinking.

U01 AA10760 Ozburn (PI) February 1, 2017 – January 31, 2022

NIH Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism

Pharmacology and Neurobiology of Binge Drinking: HDID mice. The goal of this project is to develop and characterize therapies to reduce binge drinking. Role: CoI

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R03 AA026997 Ozburn (PI) August 1, 2018 - July 31, 2020

Role of BK Channels Across Alcohol Behaviors.

The goal of this proposal is to determine whether the BK channel is a major contributor to different alcohol-related behaviors by testing if a mouse harboring an ethanol-insensitive version of this channel exhibits reduced behavioral responses to ethanol.

Current Outreach and Mentoring Activities

Mentor, OHSU Equity Summer Program

Mentor, Saturday Academy: Apprenticeships in Science and Engineering

Mentor, Portland VA Research Foundation Summer Fellowship Program

Volunteer, Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science